Starting Off as an Electrical Engineer: Roles and Responsibilities

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Larrytsai
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Hey guys,

I was wondering after you graduate with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering, what do you do in the field starting off in general. Do you just test software, design...?
 
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bump, interested as well!
 
Can anyone respond to this pls?
I'm interested as well.
 
Btw @OP; you should have been more specific in the title of your thread.
 
It depends what area of electrical you want to be involved in, its so broad.
Do you want hands on electrical work, ie the maintenance/servicing/development side of things?
Do you want software based electrical as in programming/plc control/networking?
Do you want theoretical work like design?

The list goes on dude, but in my personal opinion i love the hands on stuff, I am an electrical engineer but more than half a mechanical engineer :)
 
Larrytsai said:
Hey guys,

I was wondering after you graduate with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering, what do you do in the field starting off in general. Do you just test software, design...?

I'm still and undergrad, but I recently started working with a private engineering firm that does consulting work for substations and such and all I've been doing is basically updating old drawings in AutoCAD.

It's extremely boring and I'm kinda hoping it will get better, but who knows. From what I've heard this is typical of EIT's.